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Rh "Read again," said the old man.

Franz continued:

"'The president then sought to make him speak more explicitly; but M. de Quesnel replied that he wished first to know what they wanted with him. He was then informed

of the contents of the letter from the Isle of Elba, in which he had been recommended to the club as a man who would be likely to advance the interests of their party. One paragraph alluded to the return of Bonaparte, and promised another letter, and further details, on the arrival of the Pharaon, belonging to the ship-builder Morrel, of Marseilles, whose captain was entirely devoted to the emperor. During all this time, the general, on whom they thought they could have relied as on a brother, manifested evidently signs